Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

#154 - progress

It was precisely because Ren Zhong maintained his independent status that the Dawn Research Institute, now headed by Ren Zhong, was much more suitable than if anyone in the Border Region were in charge. Many of these scientists actually kept a respectful distance from politics.

Because of this, professors and students are constantly being invited by current project team members to join the Dawn Research Institute every month. Now, the number of researchers has increased by more than a hundred, forming a scale of nearly 500 people. To say that this number of researchers is enough to handle so many projects, even ten times more would not be enough. However, thanks to Ren Zhong's forced growth-like direct infusion of information, these scientists are still only digesting, absorbing, and imitating. These people can barely push the project forward.

For example, those researching rockets have already built a preliminary experimental environment in the laboratory and prepared early double-base propellants. This first generation of double-base propellant is mainly composed of nitrocellulose and nitric ester plasticizers. Nitrocellulose already has a mature preparation process. Nitric ester plasticizers are mainly composed of nitric esters such as nitroglycerin as plasticizers, and polyether prepolymers such as polyethylene oxide and isocyanates constitute the binder, and then hexogen, oxidizer, and aluminum powder are added for curing.

The main problem is that it is relatively troublesome to obtain ethylene oxide. Ren Zhong found an early chlorohydrin process for production. This is a process that UCC Company industrialized in the early 1920s. It will definitely not be easy to fully understand and get the factory line equipment done. Without a matching industrial base, the Dawn Research Institute has to complete almost everything by itself.

However, the laboratory verification of the entire process does not require so many things. Now, the kilogram-level trial production of double-base propellant has basically been completed in the laboratory. No matter how high the cost, the production of RPG rocket launchers and the most core part of the Type 63 multiple rocket launcher is now finally one step closer.

After Ren Zhong explained Jiang Chongjing's matter, he put it aside and fully supported the research and development of various projects. After each project team encountered a problem, Ren Zhong had to bring the problem to the main world to solve it. In order to have an accurate answer to these scientific research questions with huge spans, Ren Zhong's current advisory team has expanded to more than 20 specially invited expert consultants at home and abroad.

The consulting fees alone cost several million every year!

Of course, these experts are not just for show. They are also very familiar with Ren Zhong's retro process from the last century. Many of them even study the evolution history of product processes and have a complete set of early process data in their hands.

Even so, it is not easy for Ren Zhong. He has to understand everyone's questions and figure out what problems they want to solve, so that he can ask the consulting experts questions in a very targeted manner, let them answer, and also reorganize and transform the answers into terms used in the context of the Bright Sword world.

Therefore, Ren Zhong's life is like a dog every day, busy with everything. Some experiments require small equipment with complicated workmanship, and Ren Zhong has to find ways to obtain it in the main world and bring it into the Bright Sword world. His work can be described as a thousand threads that need to be picked up by one person.

Only buying things and finding things can be handed over to his three brothers to do for him if they are not too sensitive. For example, the selection of consulting experts is mainly done by those three tool people.

Otherwise, Ren Zhong would not be able to do so many things even with three heads and six arms.

Ren Zhong felt that he was a little overwhelmed, but in the hearts of the experts at the Dawn Research Institute, everyone actually admired him to the ground.

There are simply no words to express Ren Zhong's erudition.

Because of this, even professors or students who have just joined the Dawn Research Institute will soon be infected by such a team and devote themselves to research work wholeheartedly.

Becoming a tool person who consciously and voluntarily works 007 under Ren Zhong!

When Ren Zhong traded the latest batch of penicillin for jade with Zhang Wanhe, his mind was shocked, and the system prompted another upgrade!

"Bright Sword Time-Travel System."

"Current Time: February 1941, Haojiaping, Border Region."

"Return Countdown: 15:14:18."

"Points: 1001408."

"Do you want to return?"

"Return Address 1: Yaodong No. 78, Haojiaping."

"Return Address 2: Warehouse No. 1, Nangou Village, Heyuan."

"Return Address 3: None."

"No selection returns to the last crossing point (within a range of one thousand kilometers from the current selectable crossing point)."

Sure enough, this garbage system only increased the fixed return address and the selectable shuttle range with the increase of transactions.

For Ren Zhong, this function is basically useless now.

He cherishes his life and doesn't go out and wander around unless necessary.

So this seemingly awesome escape function may never be used in his life.

But Ren Zhong didn't expect that he had traded a huge amount of 500,000 silver dollars with Zhang Wanhe at 3 silver dollars per gram, because the total amount of transactions he made during his last trip to the rear was almost equivalent to 500,000 silver dollars.

Calculated in this way, Zhang Wanhe has probably earned more than one million silver dollars from Ren Zhong!

Because most of them are paintings and calligraphy and top-quality jade to offset the cost, Lao Zhang may have only spent more than 100,000 silver dollars in hard costs (excluding transportation costs) for more than 200 celebrity calligraphy and paintings and dozens of top-quality jade, but if he sells them in small pieces, dividing 1 gram into 4 parts, he can sell them for more than 10 or even 20 silver dollars!

This is a profit of more than ten times!

However, Zhang Wanhe made a bloody profit, and Ren Zhong will never lose out.

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At the end of the year, Ren Zhong asked Ma Shuya to release a batch of calligraphy and paintings and jade, and simply received another one billion.

He rented a small island in Hong Kong and built a villa to store the World War II weapons purchased by Zhao Lidong all over the world. A P51D that can still fly has been obtained, and a set of Spitfire spare parts has also been obtained, but it can no longer fly.

In comparison, the cost of simulating those cannons is not worth mentioning. It only cost less than 1 million Hong Kong dollars in total. After all, they are just for show. The barrels are made of ready-made seamless steel pipes, which are not worth a few dollars at all. On the contrary, a lot of effort was spent on restoring the hydraulic recoil device and the horizontal wedge breech to the original version.

Adding the Colonel's motorcycle and the Willis Jeep, the CCKW-353 10-wheel truck, Ren Zhong basically collected the basic equipment of a mechanized unit in World War II.

These are also the main weapons and equipment that will be prepared for the mechanized corps in the Border Region. Of course, transportation is not yet discussed. These will have to wait until Jin Sui is taken down as the base area of the Eighth Route Army before Ren Zhong has the ability to build a real industrial infrastructure.

At this stage, after completing the large-scale mass production of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, MG3 machine gun, 82mm mortar, and RPG rocket launcher, Ren Zhong will next fully complete the research and development of the Type 94 75mm mountain gun, Type 63 multiple rocket launcher, and Solothurn ST-5 20mm anti-aircraft gun. With these three sets, the main force of the Eighth Route Army can conduct positional warfare without distinguishing between day and night, and begin to have the hard power to directly fight against the regular divisions of the Japanese devils.

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